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Date: March 12, 1998
Financial Adviser and Princeton Alumnus Paul B. Firstenberg to Speak on Working for Russian Reformers
Princeton, N.J. -- Paul B. Firstenberg, a financial adviser at Zuckerman, Firstenberg & Co., Inc., and a visiting lecturer of public and international affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, will give a lecture entitled "Working for Russian Reformers: One American's Experience" at the Woodrow Wilson School on Tuesday, March 31, at 4:30 p.m., in Robertson Hall, Bowl 5.
As a general partner at Zuckerman, Firstenberg & Co., Firstenberg provides investment banking and advisory services to domestic and international firms and governments. He has worked with various U.S. business firms on restructuring and strategic repositioning and with the Russian government on the creation of a private real estate market. He also successfully established a fund for the Polish American Fund to provide equity capital to housing developers.
Firstenberg was chancellor of Tulane University (1989-91), where he developed a new academic and financial strategic plan for the university and reduced administrative expenses by $3 million annually. He also was executive vice president of the Prudential Real Estate Investment Group (1984-89) and chief financial officer of Princeton University (1972-76). As chief operating officer of the Children's Television Workshop (1976-83), Firstenberg reorganized the company, focusing its activities on children's television programming and related products. He also served on the workshop's board of directors and as chair of its finance committee.
Firstenberg is the author of numerous articles on financial issues and of the forthcoming The 21st Century Nonprofit: Remaking the Organization in the Post-Government Era and of Managing for Profit in the Nonprofit World (1986), both published by the Foundation Center.
His lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.